Northwest Libya from the early to late Holocene: New data on environment and subsistence from the Jebel Gharbi

• Published in: Quaternary international Vol. 320; pp. 15 - 27
• Main Author: Barich, Barbara E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 23.01.2014
• Subjects: climate; economic systems; food production; glaciation; Holocene epoch; humans; Libya; Maghreb; marshes; paleoecology; plateaus; ponds; Maghreb; Libya

The area of Jebel Gharbi, west of Cyrenaica province and the research area of the Italian–Libyan Joint Project (Sapienza University of Rome and Cassino), showed a continuity of occupation even during the most difficult periods of the Last Glaciation, marked by the abandonment of much of North Africa...